My deepest gratitude go to all the people who directly or indirectly contributed to the creation of this scenario by either giving me with ideas or supplying me with units. These people were as following, in no particular order:

 

GRAPHICS:

  • Fairline for almost all of the beautiful units now in use in the new version of the game. They were mostly specially created for this scenario and are real pieces of art. His units stimulated me to create a remake of this scenario and makes the game a whole lot more fun to play. Thank you very much!

  • Captain Nemo for:

    • very valuable advice

    • the dry "cracked" desert terrain type

    • the "theatre" city improvement

  • Alex the Magnificent for the Hippopotamos terrain icon as well as a lot of unit icons in the first version of the scenario.

  • Erwan Catesson for some of the special emir and khalifa units, though slightly modified by me..

  • Carl Fritz (Gothmog) from whose "Colonial Wars" I borrowed the Dhow unit. This scenario was created for the 1st Scenario Design Contest organized by HAC.

  • St. Leo for the barracks and ironclad city icons taken from Imperialism I.

  • Bernd Brosing for most food, shields, etc. icons.

  • Leon Marrick, from whose Arabia Awakens I took lots of desert graphics pictures.

I believe I have summed up all borrowed units' creators, but I might have forgotten a few. If I have, sorry, and please email me so that I can update the credits in a next update.
All units marked with AHS are created by me, or at least significantly changed by me.

PLAYTESTING:

  • Captain Nemo for an incredible amount of support, ideas and comments, in all fields of playing.

  • Xin Yu for valuable information about how to capture every individual city on the map within the time-limit! Now try to do better than him!

  • Bernd Brosing for playtesting.

  • Matthias Köster for playtesting.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE WAR:

  • Frontiers and Wars, W.S. Churchill, Penguin 1972, ISBN 0 14 00.3386 6.
    This book contains four of Churchill's books, but the one which interests us for this scenario is "The River War" (obviously). This book was first published in 1899, but revised in 1933, for which the introduction was added by the author. This introduction as well as various other passages have been adapted freely in this scenario.    .

  • Various amateur wargaming pages. Most notible:

  • Various Colonial Miniature wargaming pages, with various URLs, with scale models of units I copied.

OTHER SCENARIOS:

  • "The Boer War" by Allard Höfelt :-).

  • "Boers" by Alex the Magnificent.

  • "Arabia Awakens" by Leon Marrick

  • All entries of the 1st Scenario Design Contest (SDC). See http://hac.apolyton.net. For example: Blacklove's "Menelik" and Gothmog's "Brown Man's Burden"

  • "The Spanish-American War" by Andrew Hoekzema.

  • "Weyler: the Spanish-American War" by Jesús Balsinde.

  • "The Great Game" by Michael Daumen.

  • and of course plenty more

OTHER SCENARIOS BY ME: (in chronological order)

  • The Homeric Age (v3).
    Version 3 available only in a limited alpha version. My first scenario and most upgraded since. Play as Mycaeans, Trojans or Minoans in the post-Minoan neolithical Aegean World. In short, live the life in the Iliad and Odysee, be faster than Achilleus, craftier than Odysseus, stronger than Aias, wiser than Athena.

  • The Rise of Rome.
    A remake of the scenario "Rome" included with the normal game (in the main directory). With expanded technology tree, lots of new units and more. It lays its scene in the Mediterranean after the death of Alexander; the time when Rome was still only a small state. It's up to you to recreate history.

  • The Age of Discovery (v2).
    In 1563 with the slow decline of Spanish power, all new European powers are competing to conquer a part as large as possible of the New World. You can play as any of them in both of the two separate scenarios (North America or Caribean) included in this scenario.

  • The Anglo-Boer War (v2).
    The date is 11th October 1899. An ultimatum by the president of Transvaal, Paul Kruger, has expired, and a war has broken out between the world's largest empire and two small republics in the southern tip of Africa. British generals expect an easy conquest, but the guerilla-like small Boer forces are far more dangerous than is realized.

  • The African Wars.
    My first and only fictional scenario, but situated in an historical world. Just one generation before the birth of Alexander the Great, Egypt is being threatened by a strong upcoming power... From the south! If Egypt falls, the African legions could stream out all over Europe. Stop them!

  • The United Provinces of the Netherlands:
    The End of the Pax Hispanica    .
    According to some a not so much fun to play, but instead intentionally an extremely historical accurate recreation of the Golden Age of my little country. In 1589, a big revolt in the Low Lands has started against the Spanish oppressors. A war eventually starts that would last for eighty years, leading to the Golden Age of the Netherlands. A golden age full of blood however, since hardly 10 years passed without a war with another power.

  • August 1914: The Western Front (to be released).
    A large-scale yet to be finished recreation of the moving first month of the Great War; the month that shook the world and abruptly threw her into the 20th century. The scenario plays in Belgium and Northern France.

  • The River War
    The scenario you are about to play, or perhaps already played. :-)
    Lead Britain's expedion up the Nile to reconquer the provinces of the Sudan, lost to the fanatic armies of the Mahdi.

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